McLaren

McLaren Automotive, best known simply as McLaren, is a British manufacturer of supercars, with the MP3-12C and P1 being the current models. The company was founded as McLaren Cars in 1989 and has a rich history and links in Formula One as it's heavily integrated with McLaren Racing.

McLaren Reviews

Three years after our exclusive chat with Amanda McLaren at the 675LT reveal, we once again had the chance to catch up with the McLaren brand ambassador and daughter of founder, Bruce McLaren, at the launch of the 600LT at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
But this time, we got a bit more candid and personal.
Read the words below or listen to the interview...

Ask any McLaren fan where heaven is, and most likely they’ll tell you it’s in Woking, England, the home of the McLaren Technology Centre. From classic to modern, road and race cars, this is where McLarens are born and bred.
It’s all housed under one roof, and we were lucky enough to be given a tour of the facility, which is usually only open to loyal McLaren customers...

The McLaren Senna promises to be most outrageous, exotic and challenging race car barely fit for registration on Aussie roads. The $1.2million question is: does it live up to the name? Let alone the hype...

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Mention the name McLaren in most circles and you’ll find people automatically start to conjure up images of Formula One racing.
But the fact is, McLaren Automotive (the sister company to the Formula One business), currently offers more road-ready cars than Ferrari. And this from a division that only kicked off in 2010...

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There’s no such thing as a cheap supercar, but the 2016 McLaren 540C Coupe is probably the closest thing to it.
Starting from a measly… ahem… $350,000 driveaway (before options) the all-new entry-point to McLaren’s Sport Series range is competitively priced if you think of it in the same echelon as a Lamborghini Huracan LP580-2 (from $378,900 plus on-road costs) and the Porsche 911 Turbo (from $384,900 plus on-road costs)...

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This car is one of only two McLaren 570GTs in the world. We get an exclusive preview of the new McLaren Super Series day-to-day supercar.
We walk around the car, check out the carbon fibre hatchback and the panoramic roof. The video also includes a start up and rev with a helping of exhaust. It's an incredible sounding and looking car...

For many of us born in the 1980s and beyond, growing up we obsessed over posters of Ferraris and Lamborghinis, filling our childhood ambitions with thoughts of 'one day'. Now though, for those that will call themselves car enthusiasts in a decade or so, the British brand that is McLaren is making some serious headway...

McLaren News

The McLaren 600LT Spider has been unveiled, becoming the fifth model to wear the Longtail name.
Like other Longtail models, the 600LT Spider will be built in limited numbers – exactly how limited isn't clear – and is significantly lighter than the car on which it's based...

The new McLaren 600LT Spider has been teased ahead of its unveiling January 16 UK time.
Although the company is only saying the car will the fifth member of its Longtail family, the car in the teaser video has 600LT written on its licence plate, plus the top-mounted exhaust outlets are a pretty big giveaway too...

McLaren Special Operations (MSO) has released its 'ultimate' take on the P1 GTR, inspired by Ayrton Senna's legendary MP4/4 racer.
The project celebrates the 30th anniversary of Senna's first Formula 1 World Championship, commissioned by a McLaren collector who grew up idolising the Brazilian. He worked in tandem with MSO for three years on the car...

Join Mandy Turner, Trent Nikolic, and Tony Crawford in Sydney for the CarAdvice Christmas Party!
Tony talks about his new purchase, a Ford Mustang Bullitt, and we announce the winner of guess the exhaust.
In car news, external airbags have been put to the test, an i30 N Line has joined the Hyundai range, the McLaren 720S Spider has been revealed, and the Toyota GR Supra Super GT Concept has been teased...